Adventures in the Screen Trade

Just got back from London and after many housekeeping duties...finding a new place as a pied a terre, changing banks, seeing dear friends, going to the theatre, it is nose to the grindstone to get New Chilling Tales out to the global mobile market. Did you know there are nearly 7 billion mobile phones in the world and millions of note books etc. So I am off to grab the opportunities that are out there, wish us ...

Had a great time at the Sun Valley Film Festival, where our film was an official entry. So now we will enter for more of the same. Made a very useful contact there..more to follow on that. Bottom line is that digital online film industry is here to stay. Saw old pal David Seidler (The Kings Speech), happy memories on the film we worked on. Never got made, but great story, great script. So now I am in Seattle, ...

Well.... 12YEARS A SLAVE won its so deserved best picture Oscar and having voted for it, I for one am delighted. It's an extraordinary story and as usual taken from the words of a man who was actually kidnapped into slavery, it has so much the ring of truth, that few fictional accounts can have. The real story is so often more moving and thrilling than a fabrication. Some people have said to me that they are ...

Oscar will be awaiting your pleasure tomorrow night friends and frankly every film and every person involved in all the films should win this year...the standard is very high at least in the main categories. I have said this before but I will say it one more time, I was very disappointed that WADJDA...the Saudi Arabian film did not make it into best foreign film category, nor GLORIA the wonderful Chilean movie. However I have no doubt it will ...

I am delighted to tell you that a New Chilling Tale, THE DAMNED THING is finished and has been accepted into the Sun Vally Film Festival as an Official entry! I am thrilled, it is a wonderful story, written by the great Civil War writer Ambrose Bierce. At the moment the first three films are available to purchase on a DVD, soon we will add THE DAMNED THING. THE DAMNED THING tells of a man, a ...

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The title to this blog relates to Michael Croft friend, founder of the National Youth Theatre and Shakespeare expert above all. So twisting the Macbeth quote to fit my name when whenever we met was […]